"Your bookkeeper Qiu Shaobin can be in the store?" As soon as he entered the pharmacy, before the guys in the store could say hello, Nie Xiaohu asked.

The guy was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "Mr. Qiu went to the raw material supplier to reconcile the accounts, and went out early in the morning, and now it's almost time to come back, or the officials wait!" ”

Nie Xiaohu nodded, and walked around the store.

"How's the business going?" , Shi Yuning had nothing to do and chatted with the guys in the store.

"Not bad!" A guy said, "Business in the store has been very good this year, but the strange thing is that the boss came to the store a few days ago and said that he didn't make much money this year, and took away all the account books, saying that he wanted to go back and have a look." ”

Nie Xiaohu couldn't help but sneer after listening to it, and picked up a thick booklet on the table.

"Huh? It's really weird, what is this? Nie Xiaohu took the booklet, pointed to the circles and crosses drawn on it, and asked a guy.

"Oh, this", the guy glanced at the booklet in Nie Xiaohu's hand and said: "This is the record book in our store, every day whoever is in the store who takes leave, all of them are recorded on it, and a circle is recorded in the store, and a cross is recorded when the leave is taken." ”

"Oh, I see, interesting!" , Nie Xiaohu nodded and looked at it casually.

Looking at it, Nie Xiaohu's brows suddenly furrowed, and he flipped through a few pages, and then the corners of his mouth curled slightly.

"Qiu Shaobin and Cui Junsen took leave yesterday afternoon?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at the cross drawn next to the names of Qiu Shaobin and Cui Junsen in the record book and asked.

"Well, both of them have something to do."

At this moment, a middle-aged man walked in, and as soon as he entered the store, he walked to the backyard without raising his head.

"Mr. Qiu, these officials are looking for you!" , said one of the guys.

Qiu Shaobin was stunned for a moment, stopped, raised his head and looked at Nie Xiaohu and the others blankly, "A few officials, is there something wrong with looking for you?" ”

Nie Xiao stared at Qiu Shaobin's eyes and asked, "You are Qiu Shaobin?" ”

"Exactly down there."

"Yesterday evening, Cui Junsen, the head of purchasing in your store, was killed outside the city, do you know about this?"

"Well, I heard that", Qiu Shaobin nodded, his face was dry and waveless, without the slightest change.

"You took a leave of absence yesterday afternoon?"

"Yes."

"Where did you go? When did you come back? ”

"I didn't go anywhere, I just walked around the street, and I watched the children play shuttlecock kicking in the small square on North Street, and I bought them candy to eat! I didn't go home until it was dark," Qiu Shaobin said with a complacent expression.

Nie Xiaohu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Don't go out recently, make sure we are on call." ”

"Okay, if the official has something to do, just give orders!" , Qiu Shaobin nodded in response.

Out of the medicine shop, Nie Xiaohu and the others came to the North Street Square, where five or six children were kicking shuttlecocks and having fun.

"Kids, uncle has something to ask you, can you stop for a while?" , Nie Xiaohu said with a smile at the children.

"Good!" The children said yes and gathered around.

"Can any of you tell me if there was an uncle here yesterday afternoon who bought you candy to eat?"

"I say! I say! A little girl jumped and shouted.

"Okay, you can say it!"

"Yesterday afternoon, there was an uncle who bought us candy to eat, and he watched us play here until it was dark!"

"I asked if someone had bought them candy, and he told me until dark, and he knew that the adults had taught them that!" , Nie Xiaohu laughed secretly in his heart.

"Then tell me what kind of candy he bought for you?" , Nie Xiaohu asked with a smile.

"This?" The little girl frowned, then shook her head and said, "He didn't teach this, and I don't know what to say." ”

Tang Yibin and the others couldn't help laughing, and Nie Xiaohu also shook his head with a smile.

"Alright, it's okay, let's play!"

"Boom!" With a bang, the children ran away.

"Tiger head, it seems that Qiu Shaobin is the murderer, let's go back and arrest someone?" , Shi Lian Ningle said.

"Don't worry", Nie Xiaohu shook his head and said with a smile, "Anyway, we can't run away from him, let's go to the Guanyin Temple outside the city now!" ”

Nie Xiaohu was just about to take a step, but he seemed to think of something again, and said: "Xiaoshi, you go to check on a person now, called Shao Changqing, and find out what this person did and where he was at the time of the crime." ”

"Shao Changqing", Shi Yuning repeated, "I know, I'll do it!" ”

In the sound temple outside the city, the incense in the temple is vigorous, the people who come here to burn incense and worship the Buddha are endless, I heard that it is Nie Shen who catches the arrival, and the presiding abbot personally takes it out.

"The old man's name is Huitong, I have seen Nie Zhutou, Amitabha Buddha", the old host folded his hands and recited the Buddha's name in his mouth.

Nie Xiaohu and the others also folded their hands and returned the salute, "It's really a sin and a sin to disturb the master's Qing Xiu!" ”

"Where did Lord Nie Shi say, please come in!" , Huitong stood aside.

Nie Xiaohu nodded slightly, and stepped into the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

"Master Nie Shi came here this time, I don't know what you are doing?" , Huitong stood in front of his chest with one hand and bowed down to ask.

"That's right, master, I came to ask, did Zhu Weiye, the owner of Zhujia Pharmacy, come here yesterday afternoon?"

Master Huitong thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Yes, the benefactor has indeed come, he asked for a gift to Guanyin, and he also donated fifty taels of sesame oil." ”

"And when did he leave?"

"After wishing the donor to burn incense, he asked for a retreat, saying that he wanted to copy a diamond sutra by hand to prove his heart of worshiping the Buddha, and he did not complete the copying until night, and then left."